(NOT EDITED) The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs will be playing in Super Bowl LV. But behind the scenes, The Super Bowl Committee on Commercials has issued some extremely strict guidelines and requirements for all commercials. Th…
Inspired by Ryanair's “jab and go” advertising, a host of new promotional enterprises is now emerging on the world stage. However, Ryanair's cheerful “grab and go” discount offers have brought on some negative reaction. The pitch is a million s…
The appearance of pop-up ads in everyday reality has prompted leading scientists to speculate that what we perceive as “real life” is nothing more than a virtual reality simulation. Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom started all this utter nonsense in a…
Restaurant chain Chick-fil-A recently admitted that its popular misspelled advertisement playing off the idea that cows want people to eat more chicken so that they, in turn, will not be eaten, was written not by a cow, as the ad implies, but by a se...
A man has complained about what he says is a systematic attempt to make him buy stuff, after he was repeatedly exposed to a particular advertizement whilst using the internet this very morning. The man, Moys Kenwood, 56, told of how, throughout hi...
Images have surfaced on a satirical news website of a male member of the human race who, quite unconventionally, is the owner of two right hands. Most humans are born with one right hand and one left hand, but a writer on TheSpoof.com noticed that...
A man who has admitted he finds the world of advertising "somewhat distasteful" has spoken out about adverts he has encountered on a website he uses, and says they are starting to get on his fucking nerves. Moys Kenwood, 56, a writer on TheSpoof.c...
Responding to the pushback against the increasingly commercialized nature of our society, rebranding has rebranded as self-determination - to fabulous results. "Self-determination is blowing previous marketing models out of the water," said market...
A targeted online Applebee's ad missed the mark with Mark Jensen of New York City, who was only reminded how much he despises America's bacon-laden suburban fare and the culture it represents, but it totally worked on Chris Regan, also of New York Ci...
In the interest of promoting mental health awareness and empathy, music label Safe Space Records, Inc., tried rebranding the blues artists it represented as "creatives struggling with clinical depression," and blues music itself as "depressive melodi...
To assist his ailing social life, 33-year-old Lewis Largo, a former technical consultant who's struggled to find work since being laid off from financial services giant Ernst & Young almost four years ago, decided to rebrand from "out of work" to...
A male actor in a TV advertisement for some potato chips, was wearing an extraordinary amount of lipstick, leading one viewer to think, not unreasonably, that the man might have been a homosexual. The chips, Jacks, a product by Calbee, are delicio...
"The present moment is the only place we have any hope of finding happiness or peace," said Olivia Mancini, a high-level advertising executive at a major Manhattan firm, as she explained her affinity for Buddhism and its teachings. "And I'm going to...
"We've totally lost the art of psychological manipulation," said former advertising executive Harvey Partridge, bemoaning the deterioration of commercial advertising. "These days, it's all about selling something. I just didn't feel good about it any...
The Spoof is dedicated to maintaining the memory of the greatest pop culture moments in Western Civilization. In this week’s Pop Culture Flashback, we’d like to look back at one of advertising’s most popular mascots, the Taco Bell chihuahua. From 199...
Fed up with life as a struggling artist, abstract modernist painter Hal Fisher of New York City decided to abandon his artistic integrity and sell out – only to find that no one was interested in buying. “Talk about taking it in the balls,” said H...
The Super Bowl is today, and millions of people will be tuned-in to see the debut of ads that they will grow to hate for the rest of the year. “Last year, I remember being giddy with excitement when I saw that Bud Knight commercial, but now, when...
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